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Climate Change Impacts on Subsea Cables and Ramifications for National Security—A Legal Perspective

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 8:16 AM

A discussion of how climate change impacts the subsea cable system—a critical element of internet infrastructure—and analysis of the legal and policy factors that inform the protection of this system.

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Anjali Sugadev, law and policy lead at Sustainable Subsea Networks and recipient of the 2015 Rhodes Academy Submarine Cables Writing Award, focuses on regulatory issues in the subsea cable industry. Sugadev is also an independent legal consultant and author of several papers on the international and national regimes governing submarine cables, their distinction from pipelines, Arctic cables, and environmental sustainability.

Nicole Starosielski, associate professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University, has written or coedited more than thirty articles and five books on media, infrastructure, and environments, including The Undersea Network (2015), a book about the history and cultures of the subsea cable industry. Starosielski’s most recent project, Sustainable Subsea Networks, focuses on the sustainability of digital infrastructures.

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